We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …

mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …

Using an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation … between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …